Deception In Lorraine Hansberry's Raising In The Sun

People often find themselves in circumstances or situations that they have to lie. Individuals deceive each other for several reasons such as because the truth may cause pain or deceive another into believing a false statement or even lie simply because what they do best is deception. Indeed, deception can occur in several ways. An obvious choice of deception is telling an outright lie, it can also be by circumventing the truth, or disguise the truth, overstate the truth, or even casting doubt at the truth (Hippel and Trivers, 2015). It appears that deception is a way of individuals avoiding unpleasant truths about themselves or in people’s interpersonal relationships. As indicated in the following texts, Raising in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry,

In perspective, deception (especially self-deception) has been likened to a motivated false belief that can arise from selective attention or use of biased information (Chance and Norton, 2015). The outcome of such kinds of deception is that they often end up badly, where one person or both get seriously heartbroken or hurt altogether in a relationship. Two pertinent examples occur one, in the Children Hour’s play, where love appears to be the greatest aspect of deception because it ruins Karen’s and Joe’s relationship, makes Martha guilty of the separation, yet still commits suicide when Karen rejects her advances for love (Hellman, 1934). The idea is that by hiding the truth about the feeling she has for Karen, Martha is a victim of her own doing. The same aspect of tragedy befalls Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun, who is a victim of her own making because she deceives self in the pursuit of frivolous undertakings and squanders her money (Hansberry, 1957). The outcome is that self-deception for the above-mentioned characters that they are doing the right thing, while in truth; they were doing the wrong thing leads to their downfall in one way or the